An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Samuel AlexanderWe cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel AlexanderBut though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Samuel AlexanderThe thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander